Patrick Roberts, the new Adama Traore?

sambaDTR

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I like the way Neil Warnock mentions about “getting his head up” in his latest interview. If he can do this he will be a top Premier League player. He beats players for fun but he needs to realise that if he beats 2, 3 players then one of our players will now be free. If he doesn’t pass to the free player / players he will be labelled as “ball greedy”. If he gets his head up and does pass, he will be called the “Championship Messi”. We need Warnock and his staff to do what Pulis did with Traore. I hope we have a “loan with a buy if we get promoted” option in the deal. Come on Paddy. (y)
 
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I could see him getting more goals than traore did for us , I know his current record isn’t littered with goals but for a player of his age I don’t think he’s played enough .
Warnock will be good for him right now as will Middlesbrough.
 
A few times last season he'd drop a shoulder coming in off the right then just make the wrong decision. He did all the hard work then just faltered at the last. He just seemed to sometimes hold onto the ball once touch to many instead of passing or shooting. This does win free kicks and pens👍

I think Warnock will irradicte that. He will also no doubt work on his defending and 'going the other way'. Very much like Pulis did with Traore.

He's got so much ability. He sticks out like a sore thumb for Boro. He just looks a 'footballer' and definitely has something different. The first thing is to get him fit and get 30-35 games out of him. He's not done that in nearly 3yrs. He even had injury issues in his 2nd spell at celtic.

He's an improvement on what we have. He also offers something that simply no other Boro players have. I'm looking forward to see what an actual manager can do with him😉. I imagine Woody didn't give him much coaching or structure within a formation.
 
Love this guy, if it wasn’t for the pandemic, I’d be saying ‘we’re gonna need a bigger stadium’
 
He was spotted at Rockliffe yesterday, someone posted a picture on the gazette. I believe it’s already done just no rush to announce it.
 
Patrick Roberts, the new Adama Traore?

Is Adama Traore the old Patrick Roberts?... But Patsy-Watsy. Precocious talent, isn't he? Mmm? Ooh, got it all, you know? Speed, acceleration, sweet left foot, all the tricks - the dummy, the drop of the shoulder, the shimmy, nutmeg, jiggery-pokery, hocus pocus, abracadabra, I wanna reach out and grab ya. Steve Miller Band? Spin Doctors? Ooh, very similar.

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If you'd seen him at Fulham last year you would be less keen. Also, he always looks liable to get injured when 'drawing the foul'.
 
Warnock is amazing and I have faith in him to get us near the playoffs this season. He is a one-off.

Adama Traore was a talent who a club gets once in a lifetime and Boro really brought him on where Aston Villa and even Barcelona had not really succeeded, but I am afraid that the much praised Wolves manager seems to have stuttered a bit with AT in the past couple of games.
He played Adama at wing back against Man City. This was a player who had scored 3 goals in his previous 2 games against City and a defender he is not. As a result Traore. got less than 10 minutes on the field at the weekend.
Perhaps Neil W could try a sneaky bid to get Adama back at Boro for a loan, although we probably can manage without him.
 
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I think it's a great signing, gives us another dimension and puts teams on the back foot.

The type of player he is means he's always going to frustrate a bit. If I was his manager I'd be drilling into him that every time he gets the ball and has the opportunity to run at people his objective is to end up with a cross, a shot or forward pass. Needs the mindset that there has to be a purpose to going past his man. Same can be said for Coulson and Spence actually. I think sometimes these players have a bit of a mindset that going past people is enough to look good. Top players are thinking about what happens next, there's a purpose to it. "I'm going past this player because it will allow me to do...xyz".

(Said with zero management or coaching experience. I did play championship manager about 15 years or so ago though.)
 
Warnock is amazing and I have faith in him to get us near the playoffs this season. He is a one-off.

Adama Traore was a talent who a club gets once in a lifetime and Boro really brought him on where Aston Villa and even Barcelona had not really succeeded, but I am afraid that the much praised Wolves manager seems to have stuttered a bit with AT in the past couple of games.
He played Adama at wing back against Man City. This was a player who had scored 3 goals in his previous 2 games against City and a defender he is not. As a result Traore. got ess than 10 minutes on the field at the weekend.
Perhaps Neil W could try a sneaky bid to get Adama back at Boro for a loan, although we probably can manage without him.
I’ve never been convinced about how the Wolves manager treats Adama, he hardly played him in his first 6 months there.
 
I saw him at Fulham. I saw the whole team and it's one of many performances where you'd write them all off😂.

He had far more good games than bad. If anyone is rating a players ability on performances last season then we'd have no players left. He looks far better than anything we currently have (I'm not sure it's because he's amazing or we don't have any actual 'footballers')
 
Good signing if it's confirmed that Roberts is back for the year. (y)

But it's unfair to make comparisons with Traore. Adama's a unique talent, when a boro manager finally figured out that letting him play as a RW and not a defender was how to get the most out of him he was MOTM most weeks. Even before then in our embarrassing premier league season he was getting the best dribbling stats in the continent.
 
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